Hal Finney wrote:> > An idea I've been amusing myself with a bit, relating to the question> of how hard it will be to generate AI using nanotech is this: suppose a> genii gives you an infinitely fast computer. This is a computer just> like today's, programmable in C or Lisp or some other language, which> had the property that it runs infinitely fast.

BTDT - So you simulate the universe, along with a timer so you can stop
just
a few years from now in the simulation. Or the Singularity just comes
in an instant!